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title: Song of Songs 6:5 (JPS 1917) — Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that trail down from Gilead. · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that trail down from Gilead. Who acts: hair, flock. Song of Songs 6:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 6:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that trail down from Gilead.

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**Who acts:** hair, flock · **What happens:** be, trail down · **To what, where:** Gilead

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This is Song of Songs 6:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, flock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:SNG:92
# text = Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that trail down from Gilead.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	trail	trail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Gilead	Gilead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Thy hair |  |  |  |  | as a flock; of goats | tree rules |
| 2 | **trail down** | present | a flock |  |  | Gilead |  | down *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent from gilead=Trajectory |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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הָסֵ֤בִּי עֵינַ֙יִךְ֙ מִנֶּגְדִּ֔י שֶׁ֥הֵ֖םהִרְהִיבֻ֑נִי שַׂעְרֵךְ֙ כְּעֵ֣דֶר הָֽעִזִּ֔ים שֶׁגָּלְשׁ֖וּ מִן־הַגִּלְעָֽד׃

[Song of Songs 6:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.91/)
2. **Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that trail down from Gilead.**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:SNG:92` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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